"What a fine path the Netherworld Sect has! Nothing but this underworld nonsense!"
Li Ling watched the images in the sky, furious. He knew that theories advocating severance from the mortal world were exceedingly beguiling in the cultivation world.
Unlike the mortal world, spirits after death and even reincarnation were undeniably real here. Throughout the ages, mighty experts and heroic figures had been as numerous as carp crossing a river, all pursuing boundless freedom and unfettered existence.
The path of Yellow Springs, which offered enduring existence after death, was a valid choice as well.
The foundations of the Nether Path and the Netherworld Sect rested upon this, unshakable.
For the living, however, such a philosophy-and the suicidal despair, disdain for life, and wanton slaughter it engendered-was undoubtedly harmful.
For various reasons, the Heavenly Court, immortals and deities, and every Dao Path that cherished vitality and pursued reality, material existence, or order loathed it deeply.
If someone credulously accepted these underworld theories and revered life after death or even reincarnation, they could easily disregard the present, grow indifferent, and treat their own life lightly.
Expecting such people to cherish others' lives was undoubtedly difficult. Even cultivators who were not evil by nature might believe they were helping others find release, and slaughter their own kind without a shred of pity.
Who knew how many fiends and villains had arisen this way?
This was no longer something ordinary compassion or benevolence could awaken them from. Once they cultivated this Dao Path and believed in this method, they would inevitably do evil.
Some princes and nobles even repackaged it as a theory for oppressing the populace: everything was ordained by one's previous life, everything would be judged in the next, so present suffering was merely a trial, and present oppression only natural.
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